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Humphrys/Humphreys (Ballyhaise)
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William Humphrys bought the Ballyhaise estate, parish of Castleterra, county Cavan, from the Newburgh family around the year 1800. He was High Sheriff of the county in 1822. In the mid-19th century the main part of the second William Humphrys’ (1798-1872) estate was in the parish of Castleterra. He also held townlands in the parishes of Annagh, Denn, Castlerahan and Crosserlough. In 1876 his son, another William Humphrys, owned 5,146 acres in the county and his brother Armitage Eglantine Humphrys of Lisagoan, county Cavan, owned 367 acres. William died in 1877 and was succeeded by his brother John Winter Humphrys. James M’Lenahan was agent to this estate in the 1840s and 1850s.
Griffith’s Valuation (publ. 1854) records William Humphrys holding an extensive estate in the parish of Kilcleagh (15 townlands) and one townland in that of Kilmanaghan, county Westmeath, amounting to 3,146 acres in the 1870s.
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McLenahan
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The Anglo Celt of 30 March 1849 records James M’Lenahan, Lisagoan, county Cavan, as a Poor Law Guardian for Ballyhaise. James M’Lenahan was agent to the Humphrys’ Ballyhaise estate and was referred to as Mr Humphry’s ‘popular and indulgent agent’ at the Ballyhaise Estates Farming Society dinner as reported in the Anglo Celt of 3 December 1857. He sat on the Grand Jury for the Cavan Spring Assizes in 1859. In the mid-1850s James McLenahan held the townland of Drumhurt (251 acres) in the parish of Kildrumsherdan, county Cavan. In 1876, James M’Lenehan of Esk-bank, Dalkeith, Scotland, owned 893 acres in county Cavan, 29 acres in county Down and 144 acres in county Monaghan.
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